From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:14:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1274253269.6930.9325.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <1274211235.11603.1205.camel@calx> <20100518.135945.180391159.davem@davemloft.net> <20100518.142021.135951273.davem@davemloft.net> <1274224834.6930.8361.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20100519010524.GB18813@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, mpm@selenic.com, ken@codelabs.ch, geert@linux-m68k.org, michael-dev@fami-braun.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:40820 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752146Ab0ESHPH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 03:15:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100519010524.GB18813@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:05 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > While this problem wouldn't have occurred, we would instead have > data corruption/alignment faults on architectures such as sparc32 > or ARM that require 64-bit alignment for 64-bit objects. Yeah, but that's what ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is for. ARM gets this right, and Dave has already said he's going to fix sparc. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation